On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 11:00:52AM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> Okay. Let's open this can of worms. The ONLY reason https is used on
> most sites is because Google *mandated* it years ago. ("Mandate" means
> we'll downgrade your search ranking if you don't use https.) There is
> otherwise no earthly reason to have an encrypted connection to a web
> server unless there is some exchange of private information between you
> and the server.
Where I live (England) I do not care if "the authorities" see what I have
installed on my machine. If I lived in a totalitarian state†† there are some
packages that might raise my profile on some "radar".
†† There are several - I will not mention names as I wish to keep politics out
of this list.
> Reading through all of Google's explanations, I've never seen a
> satisfactory explanation for this change. With that in mind, I believe
> the Debian gods did the right thing in leaving their web connections
> "insecure". Though, in truth, the integrity of Debian server contents
> wouldn't be changed in the slightest whether the connection was
> encrypted or not.
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